College for parabens. His remarks at the National Press club run one hour. Andrea welcome to the National Press club. The place where news happens. My name is andrea. Im part of the breaking newsdesk at Bloomberg News and im Vice President of the National Press club. Before we get started, id like to remind everyone again please in our audience to please silence your telephones. Our viewing and listening four audience, feel free to also follow along on twitter using the hash tag pressclub. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public so any , applause or reaction that you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now id like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer of diverse issues and Higher Education. We have jerry weller, for
Audience feel free to follow along on twitter using the hashtag press club. For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may here is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. I would like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamaal, senior staff writer in Higher Education. We have gerri weller, former us representative from the 11th district and president of the Illinois State society in washington. We have a supervisor for ap radio in washington dc. We have star scholar, graduate of the Harry Truman College in chicago and northwestern student planning to study neuroscience. Catherine, washington correspondent for the chicago tribune. Arm and oh rodriguez, president of the sarah good stem academy. We have lisa matthews, Vice President of media re
Yes. Im offended. But i cannot do anything. Reporter father says theres a lack of priests. The new practice will promote priesthood and he says some people have left but he thinks this decision will actually bring in more parishioners. We have seen an overall increase in numbers i must say and the income is up in the church. If thats their argument its shallow. Reporter some say discriminatory. I feel kind of, um, insulted just because it shouldnt matter what youre like. Reporter i asked father joseph if this new practice will set the church back about 20, 30 years. He says, no. He says given how low the attendance is here, he says theres only one direction and thats going up. Live in the Richmond District in San Francisco, im da lin, kpix 5. Father joseph says he did get permission from the San Francisco archbishop to train only boys to be altar boys. We made some calls and so far it policy only applies to the star of the sea church. Other catholic parishes are not affected. Its not o
This one is burning at a popular peninsula pizza restaurant. The flames started before the doors opened. Im michelle griego. Frank is out of today. Were following this breaking news at this hour. Firefighters and pg e crews are on the scene of a gas line break and building fire in san bruno. It has shut down a major thoroughfare in the city. A car hit a gas line and sparked flames at the pizza parlor on el camino roy al. Cruise are still on the scene and say el camino royal at interstate 380 will be shut down until 2 00. The driver of the car was not injured and no one was injured inside the pizza parlor. Pg e is working to fix the damaged meter. A grass fire early today threatened dozens of condos in pacifica. The tough conditions firefighters are facing even in winter time. Brian. Tough conditions is right, michelle. The calendar might say january but it feels more like july out here. Take a listen to this. It is bone dry and this is fire fuel in whats supposed to be the dead of wint
One of the most significant politicians in the country whose name is not remembered. Part of the problem is that in the nature. In 1954 there is enormous stigma and his widow made it her lifes work to make sure that the story of the suicide was never told. She went so far as to threaten the author of the history textbook that if he knew anything about the suicide in his textbook that she would sue him and so although he knew part of the story, he left it out and so for all these years students in history have read a book on page 521, but on page 521 of doctor larsons book it is overcome by personal and political problems he took his own life on june 19, 1953. He was enormously wellliked. Democrats democrats always have a hard time getting elected to the first time he ran for office, he was the top gogetter in his county and got elected to the legislature and people around the state asked him to run for state office when he became secretary of state and then governor. He was somebody th